Khalil gibran quotes on sorrow and joy

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.

Kahlil gibran on love

She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater.

Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers.